Oh!...I was convinced it was in tribute to easyE!

Reminds me of a joke. Here's my ad-libbed version of it:

Three men decide to save money and book a hotel room together for the night and are surprised to see that it only has one bed, but decide to stay anyway. They awake in the morning after a night of partying and the guy on the left says "I had a dream last night that I was being jerked off by a gorgeous woman" and the guy on the right says "Wow that's a coincidence, so did I!" The guy sleeping in the middle of the bed says "I had a dream I was skiiing."

Rowing, as in "one who likes to arrange things in rows" :P

I made up my name in 2000 when I started Ultima Online, my first MMORPG. I had just watched Gladiator and was partly inspired by Maximus and Roman nomenclature.


"the pugnent smell of one's skin after a night's sleep specifically following a long night (and sometimes day) of drinking beer." :P

From Urban dictionary

"tarn (tärn)►

n.
A small mountain lake, especially one formed by glaciers"

I had just read this definition as I was looking up etymology of my own name :) That would be my honest guess.

That's really nice of you to take the time for poor old me but I do spell it with a m. Tarm. Got probably more with me growing a self-confidence and laughing at non swedish people thinking my name was just that. Heh. Sometimes I miss the old internet days.

Yeah I was wondering if it was perhaps one of those words where m/n are interchangeable, but that's probably me going back to my high school Japanese. I can relate to your "back then something like my name was original". It took years for another Tarnicus imposter to turn up!

I didn't choose my username. My username chose me.

Ganni = translates to John in Maltese
1987 = well take a guess.

Not the most creative name and easily one that I can remember :)

The sound the cat made in chapter four of James Joyce's Ulysses. Basically an alternative spelling for meow. Reflects my love of cats and literature.

You have to think simple!
Tarm is a word with a direct and very defined meaning in Swedish. Back in the day there wasn't that many Swedes around on the proto net so I had little competition. When that started to change also words and meanings started to blur because of the influx of languages and cultural meanings. But I'm a grognard so I stay with my name.

Random, made-up namey-sounding confabulation. I've come up with dozens of such phrases (Ask me about the weird workings of my brain!). It sounded kind of funny, so....
I might have been subconsciously influenced by the various names for Whatsisname Ryder in the Space Mutiny episode on Mystery Science Theater.

See, I've always mentally pronounced your username as "Mister Kay Now".

(I see MaGog is up to v6.6.5 -- will you be doing anything special for 6.6.6? Blood red background, perhaps? Or all hyperlinks redirecting to YouTube videos of black metal songs?)

One of the reasons it's still at 6.6.5, is that I have nothing special for 6.6.6. I am tempted to skip straight to 6.7.0.

Now that would be truly diabolical.

Don't forget other cultures meaning of it too. My name might be the only transcultural name here on gog.

Edit: Removed stuff.

Mine was from one of my FO3 chars I liked

My username stems from two characters from two of my favorite games from the 16-bit era of gaming. Ness from the SNES game Earthbound and Sonic the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog games on Sega Genesis. They were part of my childhood from the 1990's.